Wagner Tuba

A related instrument to the tuba and horn is the Wagner Tuba, made for that composer by the Parisian firm of Adolphe Sax for performances of The Ring. Wagner intended to fiall a gap he perceived between horns and trombones, though the gap is not of notes but of tones, the new tubas being 'solemn, dignignified and heroic' rather than having the lyrical quality Wagner detected in ordinary rubas. Wagner tubas have a mouth piece like that of a horn, elliptical bodies and small bells. Since Wagner, Richard Strauss and Stravinsky are among those who have made use of the instrument.

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